Girl, 3, Found On Her Own Outside Apartment Tells Cops: 'I Need a Beer'

Girl, 3, Found On Her Own Outside Apartment Tells Cops: 'I Need a Beer'

A Texas mother was arrested after her three-year-old daughter was found wandering their apartment complex and told an officer “I need a beer,” police said.

Officers responding Saturday to the Corte Vista Apartments found the barefoot tot in the courtyard of the apartment complex wearing an unfastened, dirty dress and covered in what appeared to be bug bites, accord to an arrest report filed by Lubbock Police.

The complex’s manager told police that the little girl’s mother, 42-year-old Shauna Lee Bennett, had done this before and that he had taken her back to the apartment several times, including as recently as a week earlier.

He told authorities that when he brought the toddler back to her mom’s home, he found the door ajar and no one answered his yells, so he called police.

When police entered the child’s home, they were “overwhelmed by the filthy state of the apartment,” the arrest report said.

“I asked (Bennett) about the sores and bumps on her and (her daughter)’s bodies,” police said. “(Bennett) replied that she had previously had a problem with ‘bed bugs.’ The sores… indicated that the problem had never been treated.”

Bennet reportedly told police that, while she is at work, her daughter is cared for by a neighbor. The confirmed that he watches the little girl about 10 hours a day, four days a week.

He said “he does not feed her, and that (Bennett) is the one who takes care of that.”